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Mar 24, 2019 · Only Jack Olsen, through painstaking research into Dallas's background and exhaustive on-the-scene interviewing, could unravel such a rat's nest of contradictions and confusions and create so compelling a portrait of the killer whose bloody deeds might have been foreordained from childhood.
Jan 1, 1985 · Give a Boy a Gun: A True Story of Law and Disorder in the American West Hardcover – January 1, 1985. by Jack Olsen (Author) 4.2 409 ratings. See all formats and editions. Investigates the true story of Claude Dallas, who killed two game wardens in Idaho in front of a witness, and how a jury found him guilty only of voluntary manslaughter.
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Sep 1, 2021 · Give a boy a gun : a true story of law and disorder in the American West. by. Olsen, Jack. Publication date. 1985. Topics. Dallas, Claude, Criminals -- Idaho -- Biography, Murder -- Idaho -- Case studies, West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. Publisher.
Clanking around the bars and barrancas of the high desert country in his hand-filed spurs and well-oiled guns, Claude Dallas had brought a strange new madness to the mythology of the West, a madness that even a jury of his peers found nostalgically seductive in a sensational trial.
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May 20, 2021 · This remarkable book tells an astounding true story in riveting prose. Claude Dallas was a poacher and trapper in the I-O-N (Idaho, Oregon, Nevada) area who shot and killed two game wardens. He then fled and was a fugitive for years.
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A model of true crime writing and a Literary Guild selection in cloth, Olsen's psychological and physiological profile of serial killer Arthur Shawcross, who murdered 11 prostitutes after being...
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